_ After long and patient research I am still unable to give to the
       reader of these Chronicles the exact date of the times that they
       tell of. Were it merely a matter of history there could be no
       doubts about the period; but where magic is concerned, to however
       slight an extent, there must always be some element of mystery,
       arising partly out of ignorance and partly from the compulsion of
       those oaths by which magic protects its precincts from the tiptoe
       of curiosity.
       Moreover, magic, even in small quantities, appears to affect time,
       much as acids affect some metals, curiously changing its
       substance, until dates seem to melt into a mercurial form that
       renders them elusive even to the eye of the most watchful
       historian.
       It is the magic appearing in Chronicles III and IV that has
       gravely affected the date, so that all I can tell the reader with
       certainty of the period is that it fell in the later years of the
       Golden Age in Spain. _

CHRONOLOGY
THE FIRST CHRONICLE
THE SECOND CHRONICLE
THE THIRD CHRONICLE
THE FOURTH CHRONICLE
THE FIFTH CHRONICLE
THE SIXTH CHRONICLE
THE SEVENTH CHRONICLE
THE EIGHTH CHRONICLE
THE NINTH CHRONICLE
THE TENTH CHRONICLE
THE ELEVENTH CHRONICLE
THE TWELFTH CHRONICLE